First Year Discovery+ Seminar: Eros, Race, Polemos - Reading on Classical Literature and Social Justice

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The course takes traditional Classical literature as an opening to discuss pressing Social Justice issues, from the Anthropocene to racial violence, from wars to everyday violence, from slavery to contemporary forms of dis-possession. This seminar challenges students’ ideas about race, class, gender, and systems of power through conversations about key ideas in select canonical western Classical texts, then shifting gears to understand how marginalized voices have changed the “classics'' in narratives that question assumptions of universality and the Human.